Introduction to Human Disease: Pathophysiology for Health Professionals 6th Edition by Agnes Loeffler,Michael Hart

Exercise 4

Necrosis and apoptosis are both manners of cell death. They differ in which of the following ways?
A) Necrosis occurs with infection and apoptosis occurs with ischemia.
B) Necrosis is associated with inflammation and apoptosis is not.
C) Necrosis involves activation of genes that regulate cell death while apoptosis results from an external injurious stimulus.
D) Necrosis may occur as part of normal physiologic or developmental processes while apoptosis is always pathologic.